Bright Eyes – Land Locked Blues (Ukulele)

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If you walk away, I'll walk away

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First tell me which road you will take

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I don't want to risk our paths crossing some day

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So you walk that way, I'll walk this way

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And the future hangs over our heads

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And it moves with each current event

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Until it falls all around like a cold steady rain

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Just stay in when it's looking this way

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And the moon's laying low in the sky

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Forcing everything metal to shine

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And the sidewalk holds diamonds like the jewelry store case

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They argue walk this way, now walk this way

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And Laura's asleep in my bed

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As I'm leaving she wakes up and says

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"I dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave

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Baby don't go away, come here"

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And there's kids playing guns in the street

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And ones pointing his tree branch at me

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So I put my hands up I say "enough is enough,

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If you walk away, I'll walk away"

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I found a liquid cure

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From my landlocked blues

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It'll pass away like a slow parade

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It's leaving but I don't know how soon 

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And the world's got me dizzy again

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You think after 22 years I'd be used to the spin

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And it only feels worse when I stay in one place

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So I'm always pacing around or walking away

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I keep drinking the ink from my pen

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And I'm balancing history books up on my head

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But it all boils down to one quotable phrase

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If you love something, give it away

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A good woman will pick you apart

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A box full of suggestions for your possible heart

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But you may be offended and you may be afraid

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But don't walk away, don't walk away

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We made love on the living room floor

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With the noise in the background of a televised war

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And in the deafening pleasure I thought I heard someone say

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"If we walk away, they'll walk away"

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But greed is a bottomless pit

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And our freedom's a joke we're just taking a piss

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And the whole world must watch the sad comic display

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If you're still free start running away

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I've grown tired of holding this pose

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I feel more like a stranger each time I come home

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So I'm making a deal with the devils of fame

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Saying "let me walk away, please"

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You'll be free child once you have died

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From the shackles of language and measurable time

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And then we can trade places, play musical graves

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Till then walk away, walk away

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So I'm up at dawn

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Putting on my shoes

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I just want to make a clean escape

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I'm leaving but I don't know where to